John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
I really want as many people as possible to relate to something, without compromising or dumbing down.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
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If a woman is financially independent, she can definitely make a bigger contribution in making big decisions and contribute much more. If a woman is financially independent, she can pursue her interests, too.
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It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.
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No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?
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I really want as many people as possible to relate to something, without compromising or dumbing down.
